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| author | Niall Sheridan <nsheridan@gmail.com> | 2019-07-07 21:33:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Niall Sheridan <nsheridan@gmail.com> | 2019-07-07 21:33:44 +0100 |
| commit | 8c12c6939aab9106db14ec2d11d983bc5b29fb2c (patch) | |
| tree | f9dc8a7d167c6355e47a65c52d4eb7b9ea03e6c8 /vendor/github.com/sid77/drop/README.md | |
| parent | 0bd454cc448b812da6c693b451d86ff4cadbb6b2 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/sid77/drop/README.md b/vendor/github.com/sid77/drop/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index ef71e5f..0000000 --- a/vendor/github.com/sid77/drop/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -# drop - -An easy way for dropping privileges in Go. - - -``` -import "github.com/sid77/drop" - -// privileged code here -// ... - -if err := drop.DropPrivileges("some user"); err != nil { - log.Fatal(err) -} - -// unprivileged code here -// ... -``` - -drop will take care of calling `setre{s}[g,u]id()` depending on the platform it's being run on. - -Beware that if Go coroutines are created *before* dropping the program privileges, some of them may retain the original permissions. This is a [limitation of the Go runtime itself](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/1435). |